Corona, CA: Motorcyclist killed after hitting big rig

Coroner's officials have released the name of the 25-year-old Corona man who was killed yesterday in a motorcycle wreck in Aguanga.

Stephen William Tissert died at the scene of the 2:10 p.m. crash along the southbound lanes of Highway 79 about a half-mile south of Rainbow Street.

Tissert was riding his 2006 Suzuki at about 60 mph and was legally passing slower moving vehicles, witnesses told California Highway Patrol officers.

"South of Rainbow Street, (Tissert) again came upon a group of slower moving vehicles," Officer Ron Thatcher said in a written statement. "As the rider pulled out of the southbound lane to pass ... he failed to observe a 2009 Freightliner stake bed truck making a left turn.

"As the rider attempted to move back into the southbound lane, the Suzuki struck the rear of the stake bed truck inflicting fatal injuries."